Hakd "Let’s make this interesting, shall we?" he sneered, twirling the dagger between his fingers with practiced ease. "A little game of cat and mouse, perhaps?"

He walked toward Lisa unsheathing a knife.

I started to thrash in my chains, causing my body to swing wildly. "Let her go you son of a bitch!"

Ignoring me, he reached for Lisa’s hands as she pitifully tried to keep herself away from him.

I thrashed harder and harder. "NO! NO!"

The knife flashed and Lisa screamed. I screamed along with her incoherently, in despair. Weirdly, someone else was chuckling the whole time.

My eyes were drawn to the movement of something falling to the floor. It plopped to the ground and I stared at it for a long time before I processed what it was. A finger. Lisa’s finger. I didn’t want to look at it anymore.

When I tried to look away I was arrested by the sight of the little lumps scattered around the finger. I felt my blood freezing in my veins in horror as I realized what those other lumps were. They were all fingers.

I was horrified and shocked and full of rage.

’This was too real! This can’t be happening!’ (Alex)

"NOOOOO!" (Alex)

A savage slap across my face brought me back to my senses.

The old man was leering at me with hate filled eyes, still chuckling. "Any more rash behavior and Lisa loses another pussy."

I forced my body to relax, looking back at him coolly, though my insides were screaming for his blood.

He took my silence as compliance. "Good. Now, let’s make sure you don’t accidentally cause Lisa to lose any more digits eh? She might be out of fingers, but she still has a few toes left."

I stared at the broken demoness next to me. Her hands weren’t curled into fists as I had thought when I first saw her. She was missing all of her fingers.

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The old man went to the table and grabbed an earthen jug and metal tong.

He approached me, opened the lid and reached inside with the tong. Pulling it out slowly, he revealed a fat, quivering yellow slug as long as my hand.

’What is that thing?’ (Alex)

Using the tongs he placed the slug on my left arm. The slimy thing stuck to my skin and I immediately felt something painfully pierce through my flesh, as what I recognized now to be a leech, burrowed its proboscis deep into my arm.

’Fuck, it’s sucking my blood.’ (Alex)

I didn’t have the luxury of removing the leech before it became dangerously engorged. Not that I minded dying. Hanging in the air like this, helplessly, being drained...I’d love the chance to rip off the leech and blow it all to hell.

The old man took out five more leeches from the jug, and placed it on my right arm.

I felt a wave of discomfort wash over me.

The sensation of the leeches attaching themselves to my skin was unsettling, their tiny mouths latching on and beginning to draw out my blood.

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With each passing moment, I could feel my energy waning, my body growing weaker as the leeches greedily fed.

Each minute felt like an eternity, the steady rhythm of the leeches’ feeding amplifying my sense of helplessness.

’but, I am not giving up. It’s do or die.’ (Alex)

He concentrated, scrutinizing me, and looked genuinely surprised at what he saw. "You really are full of surprises. None of the demons under my command or I’ve dealt with could handle having six leeches draining them. And these leeches are not normal ones; they are blood leeches, which are known for terrific blood draining. Yet, you are even alive... You are a sturdy little pest, aren’t you?"

Unhurriedly, the old bastard produced a third leech, and stepped behind me. I felt the back of my leather vest being ripped away and my back was exposed.

"Hold on, this won’t hurt a bit."

He placed this blood leech directly on my spine, just below my neck. I felt it’s sucker piercing my flesh, and penetrate between the vertebra. An agonizing current of pain flared and reverberated through my body.

I momentarily lost control and screamed.

"Ahhhhhhh, fuck you bastarddd!" (Alex)

"Told you it wouldn’t hurt a bit."

The grinning old bastard appeared in front of me. "This is interesting, very interesting. I am impressed. Most Demons would immediately die by now."

I clenched my teeth fighting down the pain, refusing to give him the satisfaction of hearing me scream.

"You will pay for this." I gasped out, panting.

"Are you sure?"

he seemed genuinely interested. "As one leader to another, have you tried taking a good look at me?"

’Huh, what the hell is he talking about?’

I thought with confusion. I was staring right at him after all.

Then a realization came over me.

’Darn it, from the beginning, I didn’t even know who he was?’ (Alex)

When we first met, I thought he was just another knight commander. But for a mere commander to kill a king without any interference from the king’s guards is impossible.

That led me to the conclusion that he’s not acting alone. He must have conspired to assassinate the king, and there’s a chance that all the guards might be under his command.